AudiolingualMethod-IşınsuYılmaz
Students' roles
Learner is an organism that can be directed by skilled teachers/skilled training techniques.
Students have got very little control over the CONTENT and PACE.
Principles of the Audiolingual Method
Language is given within a context.
L1 and L2 are kept apart.
Teacher is a native speaker like MODEL
Language learning is a habit formation.
Prevent learners from making errors
Purpose of lang learning is communication
Pattern practice (drills) helps students to learn the lang
Student should overlearn the lang
Language can't be separated from culture
Speech is more important than the written from
Techniques of the Audiolingual Method
Dialogue memorization
Drills
Use of minimal pairs
Dialogue completion
Grammar games
Criticizm of the Audiolingual Method
Langyage Laboratories
Mechanical Learning
Drills
Behaviourism
Memorizing
Teacher centered
Structuralism
Rote learning
Teacher's role
Teacher is very active, the center
Teacher is a model
Teacher controls learning
Teacher monitors student's performance
Teacher keeps students awake with different techniques
Psychological Foundations of The Audio Lingual Method
Mechanical habit formation
Memorizing Drills
Effective learning is in the spoken form
Meaning is learnt in linguistic and cultural context and not in isolation. So teaching a language involves teaching the culture
Lesson Procedure of the Audiolingual Method
Listen
Repeat
Memorize
Adapt it to student's interest
Act out
Select the problem structure
Drill them
Repetation
Inflection
Replacement
Restatement
Explain
Follow up
Objectives of Audiolingual Method
Short term objectives
Oral comprehension
Accurate pronunciation
Writing
Reading
Long term objectives
Native like production